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Practice the Pause

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Jesus' Contemplative Practice, New Brain Science, and What It Means to Be Fully Human
Caroline Oakes
Broadleaf Books
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Artikel-Nr:
9781506483092
Veröffentl:
2023
Seiten:
310
Autor:
Caroline Oakes
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
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Beschreibung:

Combining exciting developments in brain science and ancient contemplative tradition, spiritual director Caroline Oakes offers new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of Jesus's contemplative practice, demonstrating how engaging these practices can rewire our brains to be less reactive, more self-aware, and more compassionate.

These days, many of us live in a state of overreactive fight-or-flight response and chronic stress. The demands of modern life pull us in all directions and can often put the meaningful connections in our lives at risk--connections to our deepest selves, to others, and even to God.
But there is good news. New developments in brain science have recently proven that an intentional practice of pausing for a few minutes of meditation, prayer, or other contemplative practice actually rewires our brain in ways that make us calmer, less reactive, and better able to see the bigger picture.

In Practice the Pause, spiritual director and writer Caroline Oakes offers easy-to-understand explanations of how this new brain science is confirming what every spiritual tradition has been telling us for millennia: by practicing the pause, we become more self-aware and better able to understand others. We become more "God aware."

With a refreshing focus on the Eastern Christian understanding of Jesus as a master of wisdom, Oakes shines a spotlight on Jesus's own centering pause practice as a transformative path for personal and social change. We learn that even a seven-second pause practice can move us beyond the fight-or-flight responses of our ego in our daily lives and actually equip us to cultivate the common good in the world.

Introduction

Part 1: Awakening the Heart

1. We Are Human, We Are Divine

2. It's Not ""Repent,"" It's Metanoia

3. The Jesus Formula: The Centering Pause Practice

Part 2: Awakening the Mind

4. Wired for Transformation: Our Brain and Our Mind

5. Flipping Your Lid: A Close-Up Look

6. Contemplative Neuroscience: The Confessions of a Closet Meditator

7. The Spiritual and the Secular: It's About Connection

Part 3: Awakening in the Wisdom Tradition

8. Jesus the Rabbi: First-Century Jewish Spirituality

9. Time Alone With God: Jesus Practicing the Centering Pause

10. Contemplation-In-Action: Jesus Practicing Off The Mat

11. Between Fight and Flight: The Third Way of Jesus

12. Ancient Teachers: The Desert Mothers and Fathers

Part 4: Awakening Our Innermost Self

13. Just Being, In Quiet, With God

14. Reading With God: When Scripture Shimmers

15. The New Lectio: ""Noticing"" and The Seven Second Pause

16. The Centering Pause: Nourishing the Roots of Our Essence

17. Centering Prayer: Divine THerapy for the Human Condition

18. The Sacramental Centering Pause: Finding Our Way Home

Appendix 1: The Tree of Contemplative Practices

Appendix 2: Synoptic Gospel Passages of Jesus at Prayer

Appendix 3: Recommended Reading

Appendix 4: Discussion Guide

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